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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-scotland-act-2005/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "asp/2005/16",
  "legislation_title": "Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-scotland-act-2005",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Each Forum must, in each calendar year, hold at least 4 meetings.\n(2) The quorum for a meeting of a Forum is one half of the number of members (but in any case not fewer than 3).\n(3) Meetings of a Forum must be held in public.\n(4) Otherwise, the arrangements for meetings of a Forum and other matters relating to proceedings of the Forum, are to be such as the Forum may determine.\n(5) The proceedings of a Forum are not affected by—\n(a) any vacancy in the membership of the Forum, or\n(b) any defect in the appointment of a member of the Forum.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5(1) excluded (1.5.2007) by Licensing (Appointed Day and Transitional Provisions) (Scotland) Order 2007 (S.S.I. 2007/128), arts. 1, 5(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5 in force at 1.5.2007 by S.S.I. 2007/129, art. 3, Sch."
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:20.073733+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}